A serious Quebec academics union says it’ll comply with the lead of the English Montreal School Board and search to problem the province’s secularism regulation earlier than the Supreme Court of Canada.
The Fédération autonome de l’enseignement, or FAE, says in an announcement Monday that particularly it opposes the Quebec authorities’s use of the Constitution’s however clause to defend the regulation from Charter challenges.
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The regulation adopted in 2019 and referred to as Bill 21 bans many public sector staff, together with academics, law enforcement officials and judges, from carrying spiritual symbols at work, which critics say infringes on their rights.
The Quebec Court of Appeal upheld the regulation in a ruling in February, however the English Montreal School Board stated this month it’ll search go away to enchantment to the Supreme Court, and the federal authorities has indicated it could take part if a problem is heard by the excessive courtroom.
The FAE says it has an obligation to defend the elemental rights of its members, including that it’s involved the Canadian and Quebec charters of rights are being distorted by the “excessive use” of the however clause by legislatures.
The federation represents about 66,500 academics in numerous areas of the province, together with academics at Montreal’s essential French-language faculty board.
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